The Best Guide for the BR5 Area

Details of Local Parks

Petts Wood Parks

Details about parks in Petts Wood and surrounding area can be found below:

Petts Wood Recreation Ground - sports park and playground

Eynsford Close Petts Wood

Landscape Help Desk 0208 313 4471

Emergency contact number 0208 658 1593

12.25 hectares of recreation ground. The main entrance into the car park is off Eynsford Close.

Disabled facilities
• Suitable for most disabled users with mobility problems
Transport
• No access by public transport
Facilities
• Children's play area with two cradle swings - four flat swings - car - junior multi-play unit - two spring rockers - roundabout - senior multi-play unit - two swing barriers - tyre swing
• Two senior football pitches
• Shared use of the public car park (old tennis courts)
• No toilet facilities
Southborough Open Space
Southborough Lane, Petts Wood
Landscape Help Desk 0208 313 4471
Emergency contact number 0208 658 1593
6 hectares of open space for unorganised games.The main entrance is in Southborough Lane. There is another entrance in Oxhawth Crescent.

Public Transport

• Buses stop in Southborough Lane.

Facilities

• Children's play area with balance beam - see-saw - junior multi-play unit - two spring rockers

• No toilets or car park

Willett Recreation Park

Cross Ways Willett Way
Petts Wood Orpington
Landscape Help Desk 0208 313 4471
Emergency contact number 0208 464 4848

6 hectares of recreation ground. The main entrance is in Cross Ways, with another in Towncourt Crescent.

Facilities
• Small car park
• Toilets (at the rear of the pavilion)
• The children's play area is dog exempt, with equipment consisting of four cradle swings - four flat swings - rotaplay cycle twist - see-saw - roundabout - junior multi-play unit - two spring rockers
• Sports facilities:
• one cricket square
• one bowling green
The Cricket Club pays for the use of the pitch and uses the pavilion. It is also used by a Pro Tennis Academy.
Park history
A campaign was started by influential residents to buy this land, thus saving it from being sold to developers, and in 1927 Willet Recreation Ground was opened. William Willet, who lived in Petts Wood, was a builder and campaigner for the Petts Wood locality. In recognition of all the tireless work that Willet did for the area, residents named the park in his honour. Willet is most well known for introducing in 1916, the ‘Daylight Saving Hour', which we still abide by, to this day.

St. Mary Cray Parks

Details of parks in St. Mary Cray can be found below:

Oakmore Gardens. Local Open Space

Blacksmith Lane St Mary Cray
Landscape Help Desk 0208 313 4471.
Emergency contact number 0208 464 4848.

Entrances at Oakmore Gardens and Blacksmith Lane

Facilities
• Disabled access difficult for people with mobility problems
• No car park

Riverside Gardens

Riverside Gardens
Sevenoaks Way Orpington.
Landscape Help Desk 0208 313 4471.
Emergency contact number 0208 658 1593.

21 hectares of local open space. There are entrances in Sevenoaks Way, Kent Road and High Street.

Facilities
• Boating pond - the only one currently available in the borough. No children's play area with equipment, but the paddling pool is open during school holidays.
• No car park or toilets
• Disabled facilities - there is disabled access to the gardens in places.

Public transport
• Buses stop nearby
History
During the Second World War (1939 -1945) land on the banks of the Cray was laid waste by the bombs that were dropped by the German Air Force. Riverside Gardens was created from this wasteland after the war.

Sandway Park

Sandway Road. St Mary Cray.
Landscape Help Desk 0208 313 4471.
Emergency contact number 0208 658 1593

The main entrance is in Sandway Road.

Facilities
• There is a children's play area with equipment consisting of two cradle swings - two flat swings - embankment slide - junior multi play unit - spring rocker - Five-a-side football posts
• Two goal mouths
• Teenage shelter
• No car park
• Transport
• Local bus service to site

St. Mary Cray Recreation Ground

Park Road
St Mary Cray
Orpington
Landscape Help Desk 0208 313 4471
Emergency contact number 0208 658 1593

19 hectares of recreation ground. The main entrance is in Park Road off St Mary Cray High Street. There is another entrance in Crowhurst Way.

Facilities

• Car park. Children's play area with four flat swings - four cradle swings - car climbing frames- see-saw - junior multi-play unit - pedestal slide - roundabout - two spring rockers

• The play area is dog exempt

• No toilets

Public Transport

• Public transport nearby in St Mary Cray High Street

St. Paul's Cray Parks

Details of parks in St. Paul's Cray can be found below:

Hoblingwell Wood

Off Leasons Way St Paul's Cray
Landscape Help Desk 0208 313 4471
Emergency contact number 0208 658 1593

87 hectares of recreation ground, in part developed for organised games.The main entrance is off Leeson's Way; there is another entrance off Chipperfield Road - Chorley Crescent.

Facilities
• Car park
• Local bus service.
• Café, which is open at weekends
• Children's play area with four cradle swings - four flat swings - see-saw - roundabout - junior multi-play unit - junior twin slide - log cabin slide - spring lion - spring motorbike - spring range rover tyre swing
• Kick-about area
• Basketball post
• Basketball mouth
• Three senior football pitches, one junior football pitch, four mini soccer pitches, two rugby pitches which are run by Orpington Rugby Club
• No toilet facilities

St. Paul's Cray Recreation Ground

Main Road, St Paul's Cray Orpington
Landscape Help Desk 0208 313 4471
Emergency contact number 0208 658 1593

6.5 hectares of recreation ground and local open space.There are entrances in Main Road and Brooks Way.

Facilities
• There is a children's play area with four cradle swings - four flat swings - roundabout - see-saw - junior multi-play unit - high pedestal slide
• Play area is dog exempt
• No toilets or car park but there is some street parking
Transport
• Buses stop nearby on the Main Road

Walsingham Linear Park

Chipperfield Road, St Pauls Cray
Landscape Help Desk 0208 313 4471
Emergency contact number 0208 658 1593

The main entrance is in Chipperfield Road. There is also an entrance in Mickleham Road, Midfield Way.

Facilities
• Tennis courts
• One basketball court
• No car park

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